bug#35959: IPv6 for elpa.gnu.org

bug#35959: IPv6 for elpa.gnu.org

[Юрий Пухальский]

I'm using EMACS and would like to use elpa on one of my hosts, which is IPv6 only. But unlike gnu.org elpa.gnu.org has only IPv4 address. I believe it's not hard IPv6 there as well.

bug#35959: IPv6 for elpa.gnu.org

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2019 10:14:23 +0200, pooh@aikipooh.name (Юрий Пухальский) said:

    Юрий> I'm using EMACS and would like to use elpa on one of my hosts, which
    Юрий> is IPv6 only. But unlike gnu.org elpa.gnu.org has only IPv4 address. I
    Юрий> believe it's not hard IPv6 there as well.

That host is not managed by the Emacs team. Iʼm not sure who *does*
manage it, and itʼs not obvious from the website. Stefan, is this one
yours?

Robert

bug#35959: IPv6 for elpa.gnu.org

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Юрий> I'm using EMACS and would like to use elpa on one of my hosts, which
>     Юрий> is IPv6 only. But unlike gnu.org elpa.gnu.org has only IPv4 address.
>     Юрий> I believe it's not hard IPv6 there as well.

This was requested a little while ago, but indeed currently elpa.gnu.org
is IPv4-only.  To make it IPv6, it needs an IPv6 entry in the DNS, it
needs its network interface to acquire this IPv6 address, and it requires
the rest of the FSF's network to propagate the corresponding IPv6
packets to that host.

When we (an FSF sysadmin and myself) looked at it earlier this year, there
was a problem in the FSF's infrastructure (the 3rd part).  I can't quite
remember what it was, but I have the vague impression that it had to do
with the VM host being currently itself limited to IPv4.

> That host is not managed by the Emacs team.  Iʼm not sure who *does*
> manage it, and itʼs not obvious from the website.  Stefan, is this
> one yours?

The maintenance is done in part by myself (the one within the VM, mostly
limited to the part directly relevant to the GNU ELPA archive) and in
part by some of the FSF sysadmins (the part outside the VM).  For this
specific issue, it's best to send the request to sysadmin@gnu.org (and
put me in Cc).


        Stefan

bug#35959: IPv6 for elpa.gnu.org

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>     Юрий> I'm using EMACS and would like to use elpa on one of my hosts, which
>>     Юрий> is IPv6 only. But unlike gnu.org elpa.gnu.org has only IPv4 address.
>>     Юрий> I believe it's not hard IPv6 there as well.
>
> This was requested a little while ago, but indeed currently elpa.gnu.org
> is IPv4-only.  To make it IPv6, it needs an IPv6 entry in the DNS, it
> needs its network interface to acquire this IPv6 address, and it requires
> the rest of the FSF's network to propagate the corresponding IPv6
> packets to that host.
>
> When we (an FSF sysadmin and myself) looked at it earlier this year, there
> was a problem in the FSF's infrastructure (the 3rd part).  I can't quite
> remember what it was, but I have the vague impression that it had to do
> with the VM host being currently itself limited to IPv4.
>
>> That host is not managed by the Emacs team.  Iʼm not sure who *does*
>> manage it, and itʼs not obvious from the website.  Stefan, is this
>> one yours?
>
> The maintenance is done in part by myself (the one within the VM, mostly
> limited to the part directly relevant to the GNU ELPA archive) and in
> part by some of the FSF sysadmins (the part outside the VM).  For this
> specific issue, it's best to send the request to sysadmin@gnu.org (and
> put me in Cc).

Thanks.  That was 1 year ago, but I'm now forwarding this request to
sysadmin@gnu.org with you in Cc.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#35959: IPv6 for elpa.gnu.org

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Thanks.  That was 1 year ago, but I'm now forwarding this request to
> sysadmin@gnu.org with you in Cc.

The GNU Sysadmins have told me they have enabled IPv6.  Please someone
test that it works correctly now, and report back here if it doesn't.

I'm closing this bug now.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#35959: IPv6 for elpa.gnu.org

[Stefan Monnier]

> The GNU Sysadmins have told me they have enabled IPv6.  Please someone
> test that it works correctly now, and report back here if it doesn't.

I just did

    % host elpa.gnu.org
    elpa.gnu.org has address 209.51.188.89
    elpa.gnu.org has IPv6 address 2001:470:142::89
    %

So it seems the DNS is set, and then I asked Firefox to open
https://[2001:470:142::89]/ and it worked (only after confirming that
I really want to pen it even tho the TLS certificate doesn't match
that "name").

So, from here it seems like it's working fine, thanks,


        Stefan